The National Health PG
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: PG
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 16, 2010
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Sony Pictures Home
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Eleanor Bron, Lynn Redgrave, Donald Sinden, Bob Hoskins, Colin Blakely & Jim Dale | |
Directed by | Jack Gold | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Nichols | |
Composition by | Carl Davis | |
Produced by | Ned Sherrin & Terry Glinwood | |
Director of Photography: | John Coquillon |
Description by OLDIES.com:
The British National Health System is skewered in this comedy set in a rundown London hospital. The hospital is filled with wacky staff members and patients, and the film strives to get all it can from their humorous escapades. The movie also includes a satire-within-a-satire, with "Nurse Norton's Affair" providing a send-up of TV hospital soap operas.
Product Description:
NATIONAL HEALTH, OR NURSE NORTON'S AFFAIR is an antic filmization of Peter Nichols' play, originally staged by Britain's National Theatre. A scattershot satire of the red tape and inconsistencies of England's National Health program, the film is set in the men's ward of an old, crumbling hospital. Moments of lunatic farce dovetail into scenes of blood-drenched human tragedy, leading one wag to label this film CARRY ON DYING. The film's highlight is a lachrymose lampoon of TV medical soap operas. The cast of NATIONAL HEALTH is comprised of some of the most polished farceurs in the British isles. Nurse Norton is played by Lynn Redgrave (who ironically later starred in the American hospital-based sitcom HOUSE CALLS), while other key roles are filled by TV comedienne Eleanor Bron, CARRY ON alumnus Jim Dale and future WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT' star Bob Hoskins.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 46,855
- UPC: 043396355057
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item